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Painting & Decorating Students From Rossendale Scoop Record 8th Award in a Row

Accrington & Rossendale College's Painting & Decorating students have scooped their 8th award of the year to complete a record breaking run in all competitions.

Rachel Cook from Rawtenstall, Painter of the Year

18-year old Rachel Cook from Rawtenstall took first place at the regional heats of the Johnstone's paints painter of the year competition. 18 year old Danny Shaw from Bacup took second place in the same competition.

Phil Burgess, head of Painting & Decorating said, "This is a fantastic achievement which comes down to hard work by everyone involved. We've scooped 8 prizes at four different major competitions and we've also got 3 students who have now qualified for 3 different national competitions. While it's an amazing achievement, I'm not surprised in the least because each of our prize winners is willing to do the work necessary and they have a great attitude to go with their talent. The Painting & Decorating department is really buzzing at the moment, we seem to be going from strength to strength in everything we do. The competitions have been really difficult with complicated specs, which seasoned Painters and Decorators would struggle with, so I'm really proud of what they've achieved. The Painting & Decorating team are now training really hard so that we can achieve a medal place in the national competitions, the first one being the Dulux Competition at Bridgend Wales in June then Skillbuild at Leeds College of building in September".

Daniel Shaw: second place in the Painter of the Year Competition

Johnstone's Young Painter of the Year is a prestigious painting and decorating competition which celebrates young talent, promotes best practices and encourages young people to pursue a career in the decorating industry. The competition has been running since 2005 and consists of several regional heats culminating in a national final.

The competition includes:

• Setting out a design
• Working to a technical specification
• Applying different types of paint
• Selecting and using application tools
• Applying stencils
  

The competition took place at Hugh Baird College, Bootle and the 1st and 2nd place prizes take Accrington & Rossendale College's total of prizes to an impressive 8 prizes with three different students qualifying for three different national finals.

The Painting & Decorating department's full list of award winners is:

Accrington and Rossendale College winners with their
Skillbuild medals

• Johnstone's Young Painter of the year First Place Rachel Cook (Rossendale)
• Johnstone's Young Painter of the year Second Place Danny Shaw (Bacup)
• Dulux Apprentice of the Year First Place Danny Shaw (Bacup)
• Dulux Apprentice of the Year Second Place Thomas Reagan (Blackburn)
• Skillbuild (Senior Competition at Salford) First Place Thomas Reagan(Blackpool)
• Skillbuild (Senior Competition at Salford) Second Place Danny Shaw (Bacup)
• Skillbuild (Junior Competition at Blackpool) Second Place Thomas Mckean (Accrington)
• Skillbuild (Senior Competition @ Blackpool) Second Place Rachel Cook (Rossendale)
  

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